INFLUENCE OF POSTURE ADOPTED BY DENTIST ON SPINE

Abstract

Posture influences at work on the entire musculoskeletal apparatus, but with great consequences for the spine. Postural dentists use two totally different ways of working: seated working position and postural working position. The seating position is currently considered the ergonomic and postural is considered all unergonomic. This study aims to analyze the disco-vertebral and muscle pain, the conditions for carrying out or postural seating. The study was conducted on two groups A and B consisting of 43 random and that 47 dentists (49 women, 41 men), aged 30-55 years (maximum age of assets). The primary composition of the lots was the position taken during medical activity. Group A was selected for orthostatic position and group B seated on a wheelchair. In conclusion, there is an ideal working posture for the dentist, such as orthostatic position and sitting with the three types of support may be required for the backbone. Must always wanted workstations that causes less fatigue as being major change position after a period of time (maximum one hour).

Keywords

• dentist back pain
• dentist spine
• ergonomics dentist
• musculoskeletal pain
• posturedontics